A53696:391
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole economy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the ancient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole oeconomy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the antient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The first intimation that God gave of this work of his Grace in Redeeming mankind § 23 from sin and misery, is contained in the Promise subjoined unto the Curse denounced against our first Parents, and their Posterity in them, Gen. 3. v. 15. The seed of the Woman shall bruise the Head of the Serpent, and the Serpent shall bruise his Heel. Two things there are contained in these words, A Promise of Relief from the misery brought on mankind by the Temptation of Satan; and an intimation of the Means or Way, whereby it should be brought about. That the first is included in these words is evident; For,
The first intimation that God gave of this work of his Grace in Redeeming mankind § 23 from sin and misery, is contained in the Promise subjoyned unto the Curse denounced against our first Parents, and their Posterity in them, Gen. 3. v. 15. The seed of the Woman shall bruise the Heaa of the Serpent, and the Serpent shall bruise his Heel. Two things there are contained in these words, A Promise of Relief from the misery brought on mankind by the Temptation of Satan; and an intimation of the Means or Way, whereby it should be brought about. That the first is included in these words is evident; For,
First, If there be not a Promise of Deliverance expressed in these words, whence is it, that the execution of the sentence of Death against sin, is suspended? Unless we will allow an Intervention satisfactory to the Righteousness and Truth of God to be expressed in these words, there would have been a truth in the suggestion of the Serpent, namely, that whatever God had said, yet indeed they were not to dye. The Jews in the Midrash Tehillim, as Kimchi informs us on Psal. 92. whose Title is, a Psalm for the Sabbath Day, which they generally assign unto Adam, say that Adam was cast out of the Garden of Eden, on the Evening of the sixth day; after which God came to execute the Sentence of Death upon him; but the Sabbath being come on, the Punishment was deferred, whereon Adam made that Psalm for the Sabbath Day. Without an interposition of some external Cause and Reason they acknowledge that Death ought immediately to have been inflicted; and other besides what is mentioned in these words, there was none.